Neurotech Archives - Sapien Labs | Shaping the Future of Mind Health https://3.234.186.46/lab-talk_categories/neurotech/ Wed, 24 May 2023 21:02:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://sapienlabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cropped-logo-sticky-32x32.png Neurotech Archives - Sapien Labs | Shaping the Future of Mind Health https://3.234.186.46/lab-talk_categories/neurotech/ 32 32 Glia As Key Players in Network Activity and Plasticity https://sapienlabs.org/glia-as-key-players-in-network-activity-and-plasticity/ https://sapienlabs.org/glia-as-key-players-in-network-activity-and-plasticity/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2021 00:28:54 +0000 http://18.234.132.130/?p=10317 After decades of being ignored, the important role of glia in shaping network activity and behavior is redefining how we understand the brain. For decades...

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]]> https://sapienlabs.org/glia-as-key-players-in-network-activity-and-plasticity/feed/ 1 Drifting Neuronal Representations of Function https://sapienlabs.org/drifting-neuronal-representations-of-function/ https://sapienlabs.org/drifting-neuronal-representations-of-function/#respond Tue, 17 Aug 2021 04:50:12 +0000 http://18.234.132.130/?p=8722 Neurons do not stably participate in the representation of tasks and behaviors.  Called representational drift, this calls for new thinking in how the brain represents...

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]]> https://sapienlabs.org/drifting-neuronal-representations-of-function/feed/ 0 EEG Signal Quality in Wet Versus Dry Electrodes https://sapienlabs.org/eeg-signal-quality-in-wet-versus-dry-electrodes/ https://sapienlabs.org/eeg-signal-quality-in-wet-versus-dry-electrodes/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2021 04:49:10 +0000 http://18.234.132.130/?p=8333 Dry electrodes have some clear advantages but how does their signal quality compare to wet electrodes?  Choosing one over the other may be a tradeoff between time, signal quality and stability.

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]]> https://sapienlabs.org/eeg-signal-quality-in-wet-versus-dry-electrodes/feed/ 3 BCI Using Steady State Visual Evoked Potentials https://sapienlabs.org/bci-using-steady-state-visual-evoked-potentials/ https://sapienlabs.org/bci-using-steady-state-visual-evoked-potentials/#respond Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:32:59 +0000 http://18.234.132.130/?p=7356 Steady State Visual Evoked Potentials uses different frequencies of visual stimulii to distinguish between objects in BCI applications and have relatively high information transfer rates....

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]]> https://sapienlabs.org/bci-using-steady-state-visual-evoked-potentials/feed/ 0 EEG in Neurological Disorders https://sapienlabs.org/eeg-in-neurological-disorders/ https://sapienlabs.org/eeg-in-neurological-disorders/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2021 04:29:06 +0000 http://18.234.132.130/?p=7350 EEG has fallen short in its utility in the diagnosis and monitoring of various neurological disorders from ALS and MS to even Epilepsy.  Why is...

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]]> https://sapienlabs.org/eeg-in-neurological-disorders/feed/ 2 Implementations of the P300 BCI Speller https://sapienlabs.org/implementations-of-the-p300-bci-speller/ https://sapienlabs.org/implementations-of-the-p300-bci-speller/#respond Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:42:07 +0000 http://18.234.132.130/?p=7319 The P300 speller is a common Brain Computer Interface (BCI) application. It has many variations designed to improve its accuracy and speed. This article outlines...

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]]> https://sapienlabs.org/implementations-of-the-p300-bci-speller/feed/ 0 A Primer on Brain Machine Interface https://sapienlabs.org/a-primer-on-brain-machine-interface/ https://sapienlabs.org/a-primer-on-brain-machine-interface/#respond Tue, 10 Nov 2020 02:24:19 +0000 http://18.234.132.130/?p=7231 What is involved in a Brain Machine Interface (BMI; also called Brain Computer Interface or BCI) set-up? Here is a primer on paradigms for BMI...

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]]> https://sapienlabs.org/a-primer-on-brain-machine-interface/feed/ 0 fNIRS: Advances and Challenges https://sapienlabs.org/fnirs-advances-and-challenges/ https://sapienlabs.org/fnirs-advances-and-challenges/#respond Tue, 27 Oct 2020 02:27:29 +0000 http://18.234.132.130/?p=7196 This is a primer on fNIRS, what it does, the technical advances, challenges and potential applications.  With all the recent publicity around Kernel’s new fNIRS...

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]]> https://sapienlabs.org/fnirs-advances-and-challenges/feed/ 0 Reading a Thought https://sapienlabs.org/reading-a-thought/ https://sapienlabs.org/reading-a-thought/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2020 03:45:33 +0000 http://18.234.132.130/?p=7024 There is a great deal of hype about neuroimaging technologies being able to read our thoughts. And yet, we don’t really know what a thought...

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]]> https://sapienlabs.org/reading-a-thought/feed/ 1 From Brain to Behavior: The Search for Biomarkers https://sapienlabs.org/from-brain-to-behavior-the-search-for-biomarkers/ https://sapienlabs.org/from-brain-to-behavior-the-search-for-biomarkers/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:47:49 +0000 http://18.234.132.130/?p=6986 Identifying biomarkers of neurological and psychiatric clinical conditions from brain physiology has many challenges. What is a Biomarker? The general idea of a biomarker is...

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